Rise in Diphtheria Foreseen in East Europe
Reuters
GENEVA —
As many as 40,000 children and adults will contract diphtheria in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union this year because of a shortage of vaccine there, U.N. health specialists said Monday. That would be double the number of cases reported last year and a tenfold increase over 1990.
The specialists, from the World Health Organization and the U.N. Children’s Fund, said the majority of cases were being reported from Russia, Belarus and Ukraine.
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